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William G McGowan Charitable Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

William G McGowan Charitable Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
298
Grants FY2025still arriving
22
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$8.3MEducation$8.0MPhilanthropy$5.8MHuman Services$5.6MHousing & Shelter$3.0MCommunity Improvement$1.6MEmployment$1.5MYouth Development$1.3MOther$0
02FY2025 · 298 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k169 grants · $650k
  • $10k–50k62 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k64 grants · $4.9M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
$5,000
Median grant
22
States reached
$229M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KING'S COLLEGE$500,000
THE LUZEME FUND$250,000
FOODLINK INC$250,000
WARREN VILLAGE INC$150,000
COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY$150,000
ALLIED SERVICES FOUNDATION$150,000
BISHOP MIEGE HIGH SCHOOL$140,000
ROCKHURST HIGH SCHOOL$130,000
LITERACY KANSAS CITY$130,000
VIBRANT HEALTH (TURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC)$125,000
KING'S COLLEGE$125,000
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE$125,000
BISHOP WARD HIGH SCHOOL$125,000
CROSSPURPOSE$100,000
PAWSPERITY$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $4.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $50k → 16%LEAD TO READ KC: $50k → 8%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $35k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $50k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $60k → 5%HANDS OF THE CARPENTER: $40k → 7%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $60k → 5%HANDS OF THE CARPENTER: $40k → 7%SAFE HARBORS OF THE FINGER LAKES INC: $75k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 5%WARREN VILLAGE INC: $225k → 12%SAFE HARBORS OF THE FINGER LAKES INC: $50k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 5%BRIDGE OF HOPE GREATER DENVER: $44k → 7%WARREN VILLAGE INC: $150k → 12%THE CHILDREN'S AGENDA INC: $50k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $40k → 5%WARREN VILLAGE INC: $125k → 12%THE CHILDREN'S AGENDA INC: $50k → 14%BRIDGE OF HOPE GREATER DENVER: $42k → 7%WARREN VILLAGE INC: $125k → 12%THE CHILDREN'S AGENDA INC: $50k → 14%WARREN VILLAGE INC: $100k → 12%THE CHILDREN'S AGENDA INC: $50k → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $125k → 14%FAMILY TREE INC: $50k → 7%NEW MOMS INC: $105k → 14%FAMILY TREE INC: $40k → 7%NEW MOMS INC: $75k → 14%FAMILY TREE INC: $40k → 7%CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES: $100k → 14%CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES: $75k → 14%SAFEHOME INC: $70k → 5%SAFEHOME INC: $50k → 5%OUTREACH - CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $55k → 13%OUTREACH - CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $50k → 13%PAWSPERITY: $100k → 15%PAWSPERITY: $75k → 15%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $60k → 13%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $55k → 13%TELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC: $50k → 13%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $100k → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $40k → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $40k → 14%HOPE HOUSE INC: $50k → 15%HOPE HOUSE INC: $50k → 15%HOPE HOUSE INC: $50k → 15%ALLONE CHARITIES: $100k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
VT
NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
KS
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
AL
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of William G McGowan Charitable Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

William G McGowan Charitable Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$29M · 180 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

180 repeat relationships: 122 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 63 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

180
125

Total granted

$29M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
0%

Still filing today

77%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • RU
    Rush University Medical Center
    4× · 2021–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +14%
  • WV
    WARREN VILLAGE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $725k · revenue +113%
  • CO
    COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $724k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PENNSLYVANIA WHARTON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
    one grant, 2024 · $85k
  • FC
    FIDELITY CHARITABLE MANILLA FAMILY FUND ACCOUNT 1007739
    one grant, 2021 · $75k
  • BE
    BAYAUD ENTERPRISES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +17%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
2
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
3
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
4
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
6
Marrakech Inc

Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…

Employment
7
Residential Opportunities Inc

We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.

Human Services
8
Choices Coordinated Care Solutions Inc

To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.

Human Services
9
United Children's Services of Bennington County Inc

Children's services

Human Services
10
Wayside House Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.

—
11
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
12
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Moms Inc; the most unlike its peers is I Am Dom Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

279 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 279 of the 378 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
48
Early backer (in before they grew)
275/279
Grantees still filing
160/279
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BISHOP MIEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $630,000 · OtherROCKHURST HIGH SCHOOL: $572,500 · OtherLITERACY KANSAS CITY: $570,000 · Other+95 more: $11,143,529 · Other+95 moreRush University Medical Center: $5,800,000 · HealthRush University Medica…TURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC: $550,000 · HealthTURNER HOUSE CLINIC IN…VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $310,250 · Health+9 more: $656,068 · Health+9 moreSCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC: $2,299,800 · PhilanthropySCRANTON AREA F…Greater Kansas City Community Foundation: $1,771,500 · PhilanthropyGreater Kansas …ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500,000 · PhilanthropyROCHESTER AREA …+8 more: $388,104 · Philanthropy+8 moreWARREN VILLAGE INC: $725,000 · Human ServicesWARREN VILLA…NEW MOMS INC: $323,500 · Human ServicesNEW MOMS INCJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $270,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMIL…The Children's Agenda Inc: $207,500 · Human ServicesCarole Robertson Center for Learning: $200,000 · Human ServicesThe Center for Youth Services Inc: $183,400 · Human ServicesFAMILY TREE INC: $180,000 · Human ServicesPAWSPERITY INC: $175,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHOME INC: $157,500 · Human ServicesUNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $155,100 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE INC: $150,000 · Human Services+22 more: $1,326,112 · Human Services+22 moreKING'S COLLEGE: $867,120 · EducationKING'S COLLE…THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION: $581,701 · EducationTHE LUZERNE …THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $408,020 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $368,675 · EducationDUKE UNIVERS…Marywood University: $175,000 · EducationGROWING FUTURES EARLY EDUCATION CENTER INC: $167,500 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $165,000 · EducationYoung Mens Educational Network: $145,000 · Education+18 more: $1,007,000 · Education+18 moreCOMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $723,586 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY LINC: $425,000 · Housing & ShelterMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT: $205,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE DELORES PROJECT: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterRESTORATION HOUSE OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $175,000 · Housing & ShelterCOLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC: $175,000 · Housing & ShelterALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY: $150,000 · Housing & ShelterSHEFFIELD PLACE: $95,000 · Housing & Shelter+4 more: $150,000 · Housing & ShelterINNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION: $369,000 · EmploymentCONNECTIONS TO SUCCESS: $130,000 · EmploymentThe Cara Program: $112,500 · EmploymentBAYAUD ENTERPRISES INC: $75,000 · EmploymentJANE ADDAMS RESOURCE CORPORATION: $70,000 · EmploymentREVOLUTION WORKSHOP: $70,000 · EmploymentCOLORADO WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT & EDUCATION INC: $60,000 · EmploymentTHE GREATER WILKES-BARRE CHAMBER OF BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY: $50,000 · Employment
Other$12,916,029Health$7,316,318Philanthropy$4,959,404Human Services$4,053,112Education$3,885,016Housing & Shelter$2,298,586Employment$936,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRush University Medical Center: $5,800,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC: $2,299,800 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $1,771,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKING'S COLLEGE: $867,120 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWARREN VILLAGE INC: $725,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCOMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $723,586 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE LUZERNE FOUNDATION: $581,701 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetLITERACY KANSAS CITY: $570,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetTURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC: $550,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LINC: $425,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $408,020 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $391,176 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION: $369,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $368,675 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOODLINK INC: $350,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSPIRITUS CHRISTI PRISON OUTREACH INC: $330,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetNEW MOMS INC: $323,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $310,250 over 4y, 17% of budgetCROSSPURPOSE: $291,375 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $270,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL: $265,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetJEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER: $230,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Children's Agenda Inc: $207,500 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetALLIED SERVICES FOUNDATION: $205,218 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC: $205,100 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT: $205,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetDIMITRI HOUSE INC: $200,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetTHE DELORES PROJECT: $200,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCarole Robertson Center for Learning: $200,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION FOR EAGLE COUNTY: $200,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetThe Center for Youth Services Inc: $183,400 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILY TREE INC: $180,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSOS OUTREACH: $180,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetMarywood University: $175,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPAWSPERITY INC: $175,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetRESTORATION HOUSE OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $175,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetCOLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC: $175,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetGROWING FUTURES EARLY EDUCATION CENTER INC: $167,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetWORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS: $165,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $165,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER WYOMING VALLEY AREA YMCA: $160,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSAFEHOME INC: $157,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $155,100 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY: $151,604 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHOPE HOUSE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMCGLYNN CENTER: $150,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds KING'S COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WARREN VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY KANSAS CITY ↗
  • Who funds TURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY LINC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds INNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
  • Who funds SPIRITUS CHRISTI PRISON OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW MOMS INC ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds CROSSPURPOSE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds CRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds JEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Agenda Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALLIED SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Moses Taylor Foundati…Allone FoundationAllone CharitiesThe Luzerne FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Scranton Area Foundat…The Tambur Family Fou…The Harry and Jeanett…Health Forward Founda…United Way of Wyoming…Robert H Spitz Founda…The Hawk Family Found…
Moses Taylor Foundation IncPA76.3× affinity36 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Allone Foundation · Allone Charities · The Luzerne Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Scranton Area Foundation Inc · The Tambur Family Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Health Forward Foundation · United Way of Wyoming Valley · Robert H Spitz Foundation · The Hawk Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization William G McGowan Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William G McGowan Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Newark Alliance Inc: 6% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
81report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to William G McGowan Charitable Fund?

Find your warmest path to William G McGowan Charitable Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 378 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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